Amazing women of fandom

This isn’t a meme yet, but I suspect that it’s turning into one and I couldn’t resist. This was posted in fandomsecrets over the weekend and triggered a huge discussion of female characters in SF. misscam’s response here was brilliant and I’ve now seen a few people list their amazing, strong female characters so I [...]

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Lazy plans and socks

I have Plans for Saturday. To be precise, my plans for Saturday involve doing very little other than some laundry and cleaning the cat litter tray. I shall be turning off my alarm and sleeping until I wake up naturally, because I need to catch up on my sleep before I fall over.
At some stage, [...]

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Knitting and other babbles

Last night, for the first time since I came up with the recipe, I managed to mess up my hamburger rice dish. It was a rookie mistake, too. Too much corn starch to thicken the gravy and I knew that it would do that as it went in. Damn! Managed to fish out the most [...]

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Robin Hood and other babbles

Somehow last night’s genius plan to have an early night last night after all the rushing around didn’t work as intended. I took my sleepy tea, watched a bit of TV and went to bed. The sleepy tea did it’s thing but for some reason I fought it so that I could read and when [...]

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Surprisingly fun Saturday

I was sort of slightly dreading today, because I’m totally shattered and I needed to get up early to get the car down to the dealership to change my tyres from winter to summer. And then I needed to get something ready for a pot luck lunch tomorrow at church, plus do my usual chores [...]

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Need coffee

I can already tell that today is going to be a ’special’ day. How?
Er, I forgot to have any coffee this morning. And I left part of a glass of milk on the counter. Annie will be in heaven.
Also, I spent ages searching the house for a stamp because I remember buying some the last [...]

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The side-effects of the book diet

Last night I finished the book I was reading (Cast in Courtlight by Michelle Sagara, enjoyed it muchly thank you) and therefore needed a new book to read.
Now, when I went on this book diet it was largely because I needed to curb the number of books entering my house. 23 in three months? Not [...]

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Doctor Who: Plant of the Dead reviewed

I am calmer now, and I’ve slept, so I can be a little more coherent in my reaction than I would have been last night
Therefore I have put the actual review behind a cut just in case anyone stumbles across this by accident and doesn’t want to know because they haven’t watched it [...]

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Happy Doctor Who Day!

Doctor Who special day is finally here. Anyone excited yet?

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So, about that shoulder

Saw my GP today about my stupid shoulder. She thinks that I dislocated the scapula both times (I was right!) and is sending me for an X-ray to see whether there is anything going on there. We’ll see where we go from there – she wanted to investigate properly before referring me anywhere to get [...]

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